It is an ironic encomium because being praised by Folly is backwards praise ; therefore, Folly praising herself is an ironic conundrum.

His preference for “ ironic allegory ” allows him to create works in a form reminiscent of paintings in the Louvre, morbid scenes of the Tchernobyl catastrophe.

The BBC's Newsnight observed that it is ironic that the once classified report analysing the construction of MI5's Thames House and MI6's Vauxhall Cross headquarters has been released, but the Al Yamamah report is still deemed too sensitive.

" However, he is sensitive to anti-Semitic jokes, though conversely, he also occasionally makes comments that play on Jewish stereotypes, usually in an ironic fashion.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

We knew that it was, as reassurance, the ironic fruit of a deeply moral nature.

It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

Words or phrases that connoisseurs have admired as handsome or ironic or humorous must therefore lose merit and become regarded as mere inevitable time-servers, sometimes accurate and sometimes not.

W. F. Bryan suggests that certain kennings in Beowulf were selected sometimes for appropriateness and sometimes for ironic inappropriateness, but such a view would appear untenable unless it is denied that the language of Beowulf is formulaic.

Time-servers, though the periphrastic expressions are, they may nevertheless be handsome or ironic or humorous.

Through such details Dickens indicates at the outset that guilt is a part of the ironic bond between Pip and Magwitch which is so unpredictably to alter both their lives.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

The brief details of Mijbil's death lend depth to the story, give it an edge of ironic tragedy.

Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic " justification by ownership " over the subject of sacrificing children — Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor.

This approach provides only limited success since it fails to recognize ironic and humorous combinations.

His onstage persona, that of an egotistical, narcissistic, nervous comic, an ironic showbiz insider who punctured himself before an audience by disassembling his mastery of comedic stagecraft, influenced other ' 70s post-modern comedians, including Steve Martin, Martin Mull and Andy Kaufman.

As music critic Tim Riley notes, " singing Love and Theft shifts artfully between humble and ironic ...' I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound ,' he sings in ' Floater ,' which is either hilarious or horrifying, and probably a little of both.

It is sometimes used humorously to dispel cabal-like organizational conspiracy theories, or as an ironic statement, indicating one who knows the existence of " the cabal " will invariably deny there is one.

Carl Linnaeus, who named the species in his seminal Systema Naturae of 1758, would have known this and may have intended the ironic double meaning.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

His performances were considered original, being described as having a natural ironic wit which appealed to talent scouts.

She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy, where her combination of deep understanding and powerlessness exemplify the ironic condition of humankind.

Postmodernism introduced an ironic use of the orders as a cultural reference, divorced from the strict rules of composition.

The original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's face is the letter Q and the new title " cartoon " was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandizing posturing of Westminster politicians.

He uses the tales and the descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

The title, " Letter on the Blind For the Use of Those Who See ", also evoked some ironic doubt about who exactly were " the blind " under discussion.

However, in two of his most remarkable pieces, this interest is not sympathetic, but ironic.

Hamlet's conundrum, then, is whether to avenge his father and kill Claudius, or to leave the vengeance to God, as his religion requires.

In 1906, convinced he could resolve the conundrum of Uranus's orbit, he began an extensive project to search for a trans-Neptunian planet, which he named Planet X.

Poverty, sexual exploitation and cruelty still dog our civilizations in Night's Dawn, and the coalition opposing the Possessed are faced with a particularly cruel moral conundrum: they cannot destroy them without also killing their host bodies.

Wave-particle duality is an ongoing conundrum in modern physics.

Scholars have occasionally interpreted Lord Coke's ruling in Dr. Bonham's Case as implying the possibility of judicial review, but by the 1870s, Lord Campbell was dismissing judicial review as " a foolish doctrine alleged to have been laid down extra-judicially in Dr. Bonham's Case ..., a conundrum ought to have been laughed at.

There are several possible solutions to this conundrum.

In Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969, a young Tom Marvolo Riddle ( introduced as " Tom ", whose middle name is a " marvel " and last name is a " conundrum ") appears, and becomes the new avatar of Oliver Haddo at the story's conclusion.

The conundrum created by our certainty that abstract deductive propositions, if valid ( i. e., if we can " prove " them ), are true, exclusive of observation and testing in the physical world, gives rise to a further reflection ... What if thoughts themselves, and the minds that create them, are physical objects, existing only in the physical world?

Socrates saw this as a paradox, and began using the Socratic method to answer his conundrum.

His paintings often hinted at narrative content in a way that was highly ambiguous ; for example, Interior ( which has also been called The Rape ) has presented a conundrum to art historians in search of a literary source — Thérèse Raquin has been suggested — but it may be a depiction of prostitution.

To solve the conundrum, the Ethicals decided to put humanity to a test-the Riverworld.

* Lucius Scribonius Libo Drusus, son of Marcus Livius Drusus Libo, is by name a conundrum.

Likewise, film historians Thomas W. Bohn and Richard L. Stromgren identify this film as beginning " his cycle of films dealing with the conundrum of religious faith ".

Sartre contends that human existence is a conundrum whereby each of us exists, for as long as we live, within an overall condition of nothingness ( no thing-ness )— that ultimately allows for free consciousness.

A particular therapeutic conundrum is the development of " inhibitor " antibodies against factor VIII due to frequent infusions.

This dualism brings with it the conundrum of relating enlightened and unenlightened existence.

* The Charing Cross-Embankment-Strand conundrum explains the various names of the tube stations in this area.

Riddles thus have a distinguished literary ancestry, although the contemporary sort of conundrum that passes under the name of " riddle " may not make this obvious.

In addition to the " paradox of youth ", there is also a " conundrum of old age " associated with the distribution of the old stars at the Galactic Center.

The form book merely provided a conundrum which was made more confusing when the British were forced, through injuries and players making themselves unavailable, to select a raw and largely untried squad which was given little credibility by the cynics.

While the Wall of Sound might give such an initial impression, further examination reveals that it is indeed more flexible, and it is a false premise that Spector filled every second with a megalomanic conundrum of noise.